Recipients of YIVO Faculty and Graduate Student Fellowships 2011-2012

Assistant Professor of Modern Jewish History, Touro CollegeYIVO’s Aspirantur and the Training of Jewish Historians

Prof. Bernard Choseed Memorial Fellowship

Polly Zavadivker

Ph.D. candidate, Dept. of History, University of California at Santa CruzSoviet History, Jewish Fate: The War Writings of S. An-sky, Isaac Babel, and Vasily Grossman, 1914-1948

Rose and Isidore Drench Memorial Fellowship

Jennifer Young

Ph.D. candidate, Dept. of History and Dept. of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York UniversityAmerican Jewish Communists, Anti-Fascism, and the Shaping of Ethnic Culture in the International Workers Order, 1930-1956

Ph.D. candidate, European History, University of FloridaThe Next Chapter: Polish Jewishness since 1968

Vivian Lefsky Hort Memorial Fellowship

Ruth von Bernuth

Assistant Professor, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of North CarolinaHow the Khakhomim Got to Khelm: Yiddish Versions of the German Schildbürgerbuch and Their Role in the Formation of the Jewish Chelm canon

Knapp Assistant Professor of American Jewish History, Columbia UniversityThe Other Jewish Bankers: East European Jewish Immigrants, Speculative Banking and the Transformation of Jewish Economic Life in the United States and Poland, 1870-1939